Kenaston, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58746. The Survey maps it on the Coulee quadrangle.

Kenaston within Ward County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1949 USGS Coulee quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Kenaston between 1993 and 2019, burning about 532 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CHRISTEANSEN FIRE
29 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	YORK
23 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	BASEBALL FIELD
12 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NELSON
5 July 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT3
3 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	KENMARE
28 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	HB-23 WILDFIRE
22 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kenaston: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Siebert Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Ward County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kenmare	4.2 miles	8
Baden	6.2 miles	7
Niobe	7.3 miles	8
Nine Mile Corner	13.1 miles	7
Donnybrook	14.2 miles	7
Aurelia	15.3 miles	6
Hartland	21.6 miles	7
Carpio	24.3 miles	9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122593903

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029728. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.